Top 62 Music Albums of 1991
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- Chart updated: 11/04/2025 04:45
- (Created: 07/23/2017 07:19).
- Chart size: 62 albums.
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Best punk rock alternative rock grunge album of the year
Best USA album of the year
"When I was an alien
Cultures weren't opinions"
Best album ever! Too good for anything I can say about it. I am just so appreciative I was there at the time (Bleach was already a favourite), and seeing the rest of the world catch on.
Favourite song: whichever one I am listening to at the time - they are all that good to me. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best USA album of the year
"When I was an alien
Cultures weren't opinions"
Best album ever! Too good for anything I can say about it. I am just so appreciative I was there at the time (Bleach was already a favourite), and seeing the rest of the world catch on.
Favourite song: whichever one I am listening to at the time - they are all that good to me. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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37,036
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Best noise pop neo-psychedelia album of the year
Best debut album of the year
"You go insane I go inside"
When I first got this album in 1991 I had heard nothing like it before. A trippy album with a unique sound that looking back is distinctly a Mercury Rev sound. There is variety here, the trippy drone of Chasing A Bee, trippy punk of Syringe Mouth, trippy shoegaze of Frittering, and the epic, trippy goth of Very Sleepy Rivers, but it all flows so well, and starts and finishes with amazing songs.
10/10 songs: Chasing A Bee, Syringe Mouth, Very Sleepy River [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best debut album of the year
"You go insane I go inside"
When I first got this album in 1991 I had heard nothing like it before. A trippy album with a unique sound that looking back is distinctly a Mercury Rev sound. There is variety here, the trippy drone of Chasing A Bee, trippy punk of Syringe Mouth, trippy shoegaze of Frittering, and the epic, trippy goth of Very Sleepy Rivers, but it all flows so well, and starts and finishes with amazing songs.
10/10 songs: Chasing A Bee, Syringe Mouth, Very Sleepy River [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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1,863
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Best hard rock alternative rock grunge album of the year
"I'm still alive"
This album blew me away in 1991. Talk about the passion! Highlighted by Vedder's vocals and lyrics but also displayed by the rhythm section and the guitar riffs and solos. Such seemingly natural talen and a love of music right across the board.
10/10 songs: Jeremy, Black, and Alive [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
"I'm still alive"
This album blew me away in 1991. Talk about the passion! Highlighted by Vedder's vocals and lyrics but also displayed by the rhythm section and the guitar riffs and solos. Such seemingly natural talen and a love of music right across the board.
10/10 songs: Jeremy, Black, and Alive [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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18,152
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Best indie rock alternative rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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2,064
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Best heavy metal album of the year
"Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters"
Yes I am one of those Metallica fans that other Metallica fans don't like because I think this "commercial sell out" album is their best. They may have slowed things down, but they lost none of their power in doing so, and contains some of their best song writing in my opinion. The album does tail off at the end and finishes with a bit of a whimper compared to the rest of the album but the highs are so high.
10/10 songs (no surprises here): Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters [First added to this chart: 02/01/2020]
"Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters"
Yes I am one of those Metallica fans that other Metallica fans don't like because I think this "commercial sell out" album is their best. They may have slowed things down, but they lost none of their power in doing so, and contains some of their best song writing in my opinion. The album does tail off at the end and finishes with a bit of a whimper compared to the rest of the album but the highs are so high.
10/10 songs (no surprises here): Enter Sandman, The Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters [First added to this chart: 02/01/2020]
Year of Release:
1991
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7,102
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Best alternative metal grunge album of the year
[First added to this chart: 09/23/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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2,580
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Best garage rock grunge album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best post-hardcore album of the year
So I used to own this album and listened to it a lot. I always thought it was my favourite Fugazi album, and re-listening to it lately that still holds up, even though it is not as well thought of by fans and critics as their other albums. I love it. There is no filler - every song is great. First listen in decades and I remembered every song as if it was an old favourite. Highlights are Runaway Return (maybe my favourite Fugazi song), Exit Only, Reclamation, and KYEO. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
So I used to own this album and listened to it a lot. I always thought it was my favourite Fugazi album, and re-listening to it lately that still holds up, even though it is not as well thought of by fans and critics as their other albums. I love it. There is no filler - every song is great. First listen in decades and I remembered every song as if it was an old favourite. Highlights are Runaway Return (maybe my favourite Fugazi song), Exit Only, Reclamation, and KYEO. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best grunge alternative rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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1,586
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Best funk rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
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1991
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8,162
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Top 62 Music Albums of 1991 composition
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| Various Artists | 2 | 3% | |
| Teenage Fanclub | 2 | 3% | |
| Pixies | 1 | 2% | |
| Violent Femmes | 1 | 2% | |
| The KLF | 1 | 2% | |
| Xenophobia | 1 | 2% | |
| Michael Jackson | 1 | 2% | |
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38 | 61% | |
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15 | 24% | |
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3 | 5% | |
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2 | 3% | |
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1 | 2% | |
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Top 62 Music Albums of 1991 chart changes
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| Down 1 from 54th to 55thTerminator X & The Valley Of The Jeep Beets by Terminator X |
| Down 1 from 55th to 56thI Wish My Brother George Was Here by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien |
| Down 1 from 56th to 57thO.G. Original Gangster by Ice-T |
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| Chisel by Cold Chisel |
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RoundTheBend 12/30/2017 04:12 | #204118
Apparently there's an enormous gap in my 1991 experience called Yerself Is Steam. I'll have to check it. Thanks!
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